Cai Yuanpei

Cai Yuanpei (11 January 1868-5 March 1940) was a Chinese anarchist and academic.

Biography
Cai Yuanpei was born in Shanyin, Zhejiang, China in 1868, and he became a teacher after graduating from the Hanlin Imperial Academy at age 26. He joined the Tongmenghui in Paris, France in 1905, and he became an anarchist while living in France and Germany. In January 1912, when the Republic of China was created, Cai was appointed Minister of Education, but he resigned during Yuan Shikai's presidency. In 1917, he would become President of Peking University, and he became known for his radicalism; in 1919, he resigned when many student leaders were jailed. From 1922 to 1926, he lived in France again, and he returned to China to support Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang's unification of China. In 1928, he helped with founding the Academia Sinica, and he died in Hong Kong in 1940 at the age of 72.